The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-23, 25-32 and 41-55, and 3 more places -- 85.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 24 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 35 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.
The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 88 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.
Tempo goes 88, 102 and 117 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.
PRACTISE THIS BEAT →A 2-bar phrase on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 117 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 85.2% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 9-23, 25-32, 41-55 and 57-103, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 4 times over the song.
24 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.